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get a win98 bootdisk.. put the drive in by itself.. do an "fdisk /mbr"
then start fdisk, delete the partition(s).. then recreate them.. but if you want a partition type other than fat32 then use your win2k fdisk util.. format.. etc..

Ok...based on my limited experience, whenever I have put one a HD from one box into another, it always booted up. The only issues were warnings that peripherals and hardware were different (because of being in a different box)...the only time I ever had it not boot up was because the HD was fuxored. You said it had windows 95 installed on it, so AFAIK, it should still boot right up.

But like I said, I've only built about a dozen boxes, so am by no means any expert.

Yea, it does boot up it says "Starting Windows 95" and then says that it needs to find command.com and to search for it. Since I do not know the contents of this HD I inserted a Recovery Disk with command.com in it and typed a:\command.com and it still says the same error. I don't know if it could be some weird virus it could have or what it could be.

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follow the instruction already given
Fdisk /mbr this is not destructive to your data
you will need to reload the system files ie Command.com that is done with
Sys c:

But I think you may need to appologise to a few members of this site.. you see a few ARE Techs from your country. and I dont think they are

I doubt that the techniacian know anything since this country isn't all that advanced (Dominican Republic).

..
At the end of the day you want the knowledge of a tech but are not willing to pay the cost.. what cost is it to become a tech? well it isnt free.. I don't waste my time on penny pinchers when they enter my service center.. "Are you prepared to pay a minimum of $50?" answer "No", My reply "you will find the Butcherhas the skill for the price you are willing to pay"

Cheers

"Consumer technology now exceeds the average persons ability to comprehend how to use it..give up hope of them being able to understand how it works." - Me http://www.cybercrypt.co.nr

I was.. (still am) under the impression that the data wasn't important on that drive.
So if it's not.. fdisk it.. wipe all the partitons out.. if I'm wrong and you want to recover what's there then let us know..

Although I have no personal bad experiences with Seagate I still suspect that the drive is damaged?

I haven't tried doing a chkdsk or scandisk on it

Raion, would you please do that?..........I see no point in wasting your time if it is physically shot?

You should also be able to get diagnostics from the Seagate site......do a full scan.........takes a while, but you will save time if it shows the drive to be damaged?

You should be able to tell the size of the drive from the first page of your startup screen, and from the Seagate diagnostics.........it should also be on the label on the drive.......what is its model number? scriptkiddie18 and myself have an interest in that information

As for your views on technicians..............what do you do if you want a doctor or a dentist?......go to the USA?

Good Luck

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As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?

I don't really know the size of the HD just yet the model number is (not sure taking a shot in the dark since it doesn't specify like Model Number) ST32122A and i will try to run scandisk and chkdisk as soon as i feel like opening my case again and reconnecting the harddrive :P

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Note: A "custom" or "user-defined" CMOS drivetype may ask for a
numerical value for the Write Precompensation cylinder and for the
Landing Zone cylinder. A basic rule-of-thumb for drive models that do
not require the old Write Precomp technique or a Landing Zone because
they are Auto-Parking is to add 1 to the cylinder value being used. As
an example: If cylinders equaled 820, then both Write Precomp and
Landing Zone would be entered as 821. Some BIOS will convert this to
65535 or -1, which are functionally equivalent to "none (not used)".

Already low-level formatted at the factory.

Since a User-definable or Custom translation geometry may be used, it
is imperative that the values be written down and kept with your
permanent records for retrieval in the event of CMOS battery failure.

Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product
offerings or specifications. (09/23/97)

They claim that it should live (powered up) for 300,000 hours......which is about 34 years

I didn't check the guarantee though.

Scriptkiddie18 you were almost spot on..........2.11Gb, but I am surprised that it runs at 4500RPM?.......that was pretty fast for then?

Cheers

If you cannot do someone any good: don't do them any harm....
As long as you did this to one of these, the least of my little ones............you did it unto Me.
What profiteth a man if he gains the entire World at the expense of his immortal soul?